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"This edition is strictly limited to seventeen hundred signed, numbered and registered sets." This set is not numbered
"Sources of materials": v. 1, p. xviii-xxvii
v. 1. Colonial rights; the revolution; the Constitution.--v. 2. Foreign relations, part 1.--v. 3. Foreign relations, part 2.--v. 4. Slavery from 1790 to 1857.--v. 5. State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861).--v. 6. The Civil War.--v. 7. Civil rights, part 1.--v. 8. Civil rights, part 2.--v. 9. Departments of government.--v. 10. Economic and social questions, part 1.--v. 11. Economic and social questions, part 2.--v. 12. Revenue: the tariff and taxation.--v. 13. Finance, part 1.--v. 14. Finance, part 2, and indexes